Beijing Fears COVID-19 Is Turning Point for China, Globalization | RealClearPolitics
"While the world fights the coronavirus pandemic, China is fighting a propaganda war.
Beijing’s war aim is simple:
shift away from China all blame for the outbreak, the botched initial response, and its early spread into the broader world.
Also at risk is the personal legacy of General ...Secretary Xi Jinping, who has staked his legitimacy on his technocratic competence.
...What Beijing cares about is clear from its sustained war on global public opinion.
Chinese propaganda mouthpieces have launched a
broad array of attacks against the facts, attempting to create a new narrative about China’s historic victory over the Wuhan virus.
...Unsurprisingly,
China also has enablers abroad helping to whitewash Beijing’s culpability.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus refused for months to declare a pandemic, and instead thanked China for “making us safer,” a comment straight out of an Orwell novel.
...It is only since the outbreak of the pandemic that Americans have come to learn that
China is the major supplier for U.S. medicines.
The first drug shortages, due to dependence on China, have already occurred.
...The coronavirus pandemic is a turning point for China and the world..."
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